Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Georgetown University’s Global Irish Studies and the University of Galway presented

The Irish Emigrant Letter

A conversation featuring historian Kerby A. Miller

Tuesday, April 16, 2-3:30 p.m., Arrupe Multipurpose Room in Arrupe Hall.

Pulitzer-nominated historian Kerby A. Miller began compiling an archive of Irish emigrant letters in the 1970s. The letters, which number in the thousands, date from the later seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.

In this in-conversation event, he discussed the archive, and the unique online database created at the University of Galway to showcase the material. Themes in the collection range from descriptions of major events in US and Irish history to longings for home and the economic fortunes of emigrants who made their way across the American continent.

Participating in the conversation were

Kerby A. Miller (Emeritus Professor of History at University of Missouri and Honorary Professor of History at University of Galway)

Professor Daniel Carey (University of Galway)

Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne (University of Galway)

Professor Chandra Manning (Georgetown University)

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